Hence, in every family of position and consideration, “back motion” is as prevalent as time itself; - Edwin A. Abbott

The birth of a True Equilateral Triangle from Isosceles parents is the subject of rejoicing in our country for many furlongs round. After a strict examination conducted by the Sanitary and Social Board, the infant, if certified as Regular, is with solemn ceremonial admitted into the class of Equilaterals. He is then immediately taken from his proud yet sorrowing parents and adopted by some childless Equilateral, who is bound by oath never to permit the child henceforth to enter his former home or so much as to look upon his relations again, for fear lest the freshly developed organism may, by force of unconscious imitation, fall back again into his hereditary level.

I am myself disposed to think that this is one of the many cases in which expense is the truest economy.

Spaceland, whose appreciation has, with unexpected celerity, required a